Jennifer Lopez Quotes
1. And ideal with all that by being like a perfectionist. But that’s okay.
2. And I love the idea of spending the whole day in bed with my lover.
3. And I never ask what I’m doing the next day. I don’t want to know what I’m doing tomorrow. It’s much too overwhelming. So I just go day by day, without knowing.
4. Beauty is only skin deep. I think what’s really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit.
Somebody said to me not too long ago, “Until you’re twenty, you have the face you are born with, and after that you have the face you deserve”, and I really loved that .
6. I can only speak for myself, and hope people hear my words and see me on television speaking for myself. And, hopefully, they’ll be able to make their own judgment. And at the end of the day, I just want my work to speak for itself.
7. I could serve coffee using my rear as a ledge.
10. I grew up in the Bronx where you would stay up late with your girlfriends, just being silly in our bedrooms, whatever. And I was always the clown.
12. I just knew that was what I wanted to do. I was going to perform as a singer; I was going to perform as a dancer, and I was, you know, going to do movies and be an actress. I was going to do it or die trying. That’s what my life was.
13. I loved the last album, and it was one hundred percent me. But this is like me two years later, who understands a little bit more about music and understands a little bit more about making an album. I wrote a lot more.
14. I swear to God, I don’t remember anything Gwyneth Paltrow was in. Some people get hot by association. I heard more about her and Brad Pitt and I ever heard about her work.
16. I’d be stupid not to take into consideration that there are certain things people will not consider me for because my name is Lopez. And I know I can do any kind of role. I don’t want anybody to say, Oh, she can’t pull this off. So those are barriers that you have to overcome.
17. If anyone can figure out how to balance my celebrity and my dual careers in music and film, it’s me. I don’t feel frightened; I feel challenged.
18. If you kiss on the first date and it’s not right, then there will be no second date. Sometimes it’s better to hold out and not kiss for a long time. I am a strong believer in kissing being very intimate, and the minute you kiss, the floodgates open for everything else.
20. It’s a shame to call somebody a “diva” simply because they work harder than everybody else.
21. J. Lo is also an homage to my fans. That’s what fans call me on the streets, and I like it. So giving the album this title is my way of telling them that this is for them, in appreciation of their support.
23. People assume I’m out there having this great life, but money doesn’t erase the pain. When you’re young you barrel through life, making choices without thinking of repercussions. A few years down the line, you wake up in a certain place and wonder how the hell you got there.
24. People equate sexy with promiscuous. They think that because I’m shaped this way, I must be scandalous – like running around and bringing men into my hotel room. But it’s just the opposite.
26. So I sat down with him and portrayed more the side of the character he needed to see. Which is what I do when I go in for an interview for a part I like. As much as you think you’re dealing with creative people, they see you for what your image is out there.
27. The bear is what we all wrestle with. Everybody has their bear in life. It’s about conquering that bear and letting him go.
29. They’re making me out to be a serial marrying person or something. I’m laughing at that.
30. This is the man my mother lived for. My career means something now because I’ve worked with Robert Redford.
31. You can’t take life for granted.
32. You have to come in and be that character when you walk into the room. That’s what one of my first acting teachers taught me. You know, don’t go in there being Jennifer and then expect to flip and change, because they’re not going to have that imagination.
33. You know, maybe I was just born in the wrong time, but I love all things romantic. Puffy understands that. For my last birthday, he covered my hotel room floor with rose petals and had flowers and candles all over the room.
35. [Men] really disgust me if they don’t have a nice smile, nice lips and niceteeth…They have too many disgusting habits – like scratching themselves all the time. And it’s really weird how guys think that passing gas is the funniest thing in the world. They love to do that thing in front of girls and laugh about it.
36. Can you piss off a Puerto Rican and live to tell about it?
39. It used to bother me being portrayed as this bitchy person, but now I feel that the public understands me better than some writer. There are people who know who I really am, and that’s good enough for me.
40. Sometimes journalists try to create a persona that’s not really there.
41. If you love someone, don`t wait till tomorrow to tell him/her. Maybe that next day will never come at all.
44. [But she doesn't want to discuss the specifics of their relationship or any future offspring.] I liked the days when our stars had a mystery to them, … You had this illusion. And when you watched the movies, they had so much more impact because you didn’t know who these stars weredating, or if they were married or what was happening in their lives.
46. On Madonna: Do I think she’s a great performer? Yes. Do I think she’s a great actress? No.
Madonna Quotes
1. Everybody loves you when they are about to cum.
4. I’m tough, ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.
5. When I’m hungry, I eat. When I’m thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it.
7. Strong women leave big hickies
9. I have the same goal I’ve had ever since I was a girl. I want to rule the world.
11. Better to live one year as a tiger, than a hundred as a sheep.
12. Never forget to dream.
13. To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don’t want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.
16. I won’t be happy till I’m as famous as God.
17. Straight men need to be emasculated. I’m sorry. They all need to be slapped around. Women have been kept down for too long. Every straight guy should have a man’s tongue in his mouth at least once.
18. Everyone probably thinks that I’m a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I’d rather read a book.
21. I am a survivor. I am like a cockroach, you just can’t get rid of me.
22. He (singer Prince) reeks of lavender. It turned me on, actually.
24. I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
25. It takes a REALLY big man to fill my shoes.
27. I’d like to be more involved in making the world a better place.
28. Effeminate men intrigue me more than anything in the world. I see them as my alter egos. I feel very drawn to them. I think like a guy, but I’m feminine. So I relate to feminine men.
29. There are moments when I can’t believe I’m as old as I am. But I feel better physically than I did 10 years ago. I don’t think, Oh God, I’m missing something.
31. I would like to see the Pope wearing my T-shirt.
32. I feel just as hungry today as I did the day I left home.
34. I always thought of losing my virginity as a career move.
35. Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It’s a painful religion. We’re all gluttons for punishment.
36. I became an overachiever to get approval from the world.
37. I’m not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.
39. I am rich and famous. I have a talented and gorgeous husband and two beautiful children. I could go on.
40. To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage; because we don’t want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.
41. I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this.
42. I’d like to think I am taking people on a journey; I am not just entertaining people, but giving them something to think about when they leave.
44. I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon… but I want to stay alive.45. I’d love to be a memorable figure in the history of entertainment in some sexual, comic, tragic way. I’d like to leave the impression that Marilyn Monroe did, to be able to arouse so many different feelings in people.
47. I think you can be defiant and rebellious and still be strong and positive.48. Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don’t judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.
52. Sometimes I look back at myself and remember things I used to say, or my hairstyle, and I cringe.
53. I hate polite conversation. I hate it when people stand around and go, “Hi, how are you?” I hate words that don’t have any reason or meaning. Also I hate it when people smoke in elevators and closed in places. It’s just so rude.
54. You have to be patient. I’m not.
55. I know the aspect of my personality, being the vixen, the heartbreaker and the incredibly provocative girl is a very marketable image — but it’s not insincere. You just can’t take it seriously.
58. I have had many challenges in my life, including some very big ones when I was young and I’ve learned a lot of valuable lessons along the way. I have seen life from just about every angle you can see it from.
60. Not only does society suffer from racism and sexism but it also suffers from ageism. Once you reach a certain age you’re not allowed to be adventurous, you’re not allowed to be sexual. I mean, is there a rule? Are you supposed to just die?61. I’m not a feminist, I’m a humanist.
62. My father was very strong. I don’t agree with a lot of the ways he brought me up. I don’t agree with a lot of his values, but he did have a lot of integrity, and if he told us not to do something, he didn’t do it either.
64. I’m a very old-fashioned girl. Marriage is a great thing when it’s right. And I did celebrate it and embrace it, and I wanted the whole world to know that this was the man I loved more than anything. But there’s a price to pay for that, which is something I realize now. Ever since I was in high school, when I was madly in love with someone, I was so proud of that person. I wanted the world to know that I loved him. But once you reveal it to the world — and you’re in the public eye — you give it up, and it’s not your own anymore. I began to realize how important it is to hold on to privacy and keeping things to yourself as much as possible. It’s like a runaway train afterwards.
66. My having a child is not for public consumption. It’s not a career move. It’s not a performance to be judged or rated. Nor is my role as a mother.67. Family is everything. Family comes first. It’s not what I expected it to be, but nothing ever is.
70. Lourdes really is the love of my life. I don’t want to traipse around with nannies and tutors. I think it’s important for children to stay in one place, to socialize with other children.
74. I liked my body growing up and I wasn’t ashamed of it. I liked boys and didn’t feel inhibited by them. Maybe it comes from having brothers and sharing a bathroom. The boys got the wrong impression of me at high school. They mistook forwardness for promiscuity. When they don’t get what they want, they turn on you. I went through this period when all the girls thought I was loose and the boys said I was a nymphomaniac. The first boy I ever slept with was my boyfriend and we’d been going out a long time.
76. I loved nuns when I was growing up. I thought they were beautiful. For several years I wanted to be a nun. I saw them as really pure, disciplined, above average people. They had these serene faces. Nuns are sexy77. I think that life is a paradox and you have to embrace that in your work and your belief systems … you can’t be a literalist, and that’s the trouble that people always find themselves in. That’s why people always hit a wall with any of my stuff, because you can’t take it literally.
80. I don’t care anymore if people dress like me, now I want them to think like me.81. If I was a girl again, I would like to be like my fans, I would like to be like Madonna.
83. Being blonde is definitely a different state of mind. I can’t really put my finger on it, but the artifice of being blonde has some incredible sort of sexual connotation. Men really respond to it. I love blonde hair but it really does something different to you. I feel more grounded when I have dark hair, and I feel more ethereal when I have light hair. It’s unexplainable. I also feel more Italian when my hair is dark.
84. I have the most perfect belly button. When I stick my fingers in it, I feel a nerve in the center of my body shoot up my spine.
86. It’s not my nature to just kick back.
87. I think passive beauties have their place in the world. It’s hard for me to relate to that.
88. People think they will wake up one day and I’ll be gone. But I’m never going away.
90. A lot of people are just really confused by me; they don’t know what to think of me, so they try to compartmentalize me or diminish me. Maybe they just feel unsafe. But any time you have an overtly emotional or irrational, negative reaction to something, you’re fearing something that it’s bringing up in you.
91. I just like the idea of pills. I like to collect them but not actually take them. When I fell off my horse, I got tons of stuff: Demerol and Vicodin and Xanax and Valium and Oxycontin, which is supposed to be like heroin. And I’m quite scared to take them. I’m a control freak.
93. Fame is a by-product. Fame is something that should happen because you do work that speaks to people and people want to know about your work. Unfortunately the personality of people has taken over from the work and the artistry and it’s this thing now that stands on its own. I don’t think one should ever aspire to being famous.
95. If we can elect an African American as president, we can support gay marriage! Defeat prop 8! We will not give up!
96. When I experienced what was going on first hand, I just got sucked into the whole thing. Thank God I did. I met some amazing people and, hopefully, I’ve changed the lives of a lot of children. Just as important, I think it’s been an incredible growing and learning experience for me. (About her work in Malawi).
97. Publicly humiliating someone for your own gain will only come and haunt you. God’s going to have his revenge.
99. I’m not going to compromise my artistic integrity. (Spoken in her documentary Truth or Dare.)100. I went to New York. I had a dream. I wanted to be a big star. I didn’t know anybody. I wanted to dance. I wanted to sing. I wanted to do all those things. I wanted to make people happy. I wanted to be famous. I wanted everybody to love me. I wanted to be a star. I worked really hard and my dream came true.
102. Maybe I’m just a gay man inside a woman’s body! (Talking to Michael Parkinson in November ’05 interview)103. I don’t care if you have a small dick, as long as you know how to use that stick. (From The Girlie Show)
105. When I got my first paycheck, $5’000 or something. I bought a Leger and I bought a Frida Kahlo self-portrait, but I don’t know which came first. But I remember buying it and I had just gotten married and it looked completely out of place in my house in Malibu.
107. What else is there for me to conquer? Hopefully my ego. How will I know when I’ve succeeded? When I stop caring what anyone thinks.
108. My pussy has nine lives.
109. I think I have a dick in my brain. I don’t need to have one between my legs.
